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Lauren McGrath. Our society’s valuation of drugs, and the crucial role that drugs play in our daily lives, is manifested in the name “Big Pharma;” a critical analysis of history with an eye towards neoliberal policy enables us to see how the pharmaceutical industry gained this nickname.
Dec 19, 2022 · (Alexyz3d/iStock/Getty Images Plus) This year we saw some major changes to several Big Pharmas’ names, logos and corporate branding and alongside this a slew of biotechs decided to change...
Feb 21, 2022 · This Is How Big Pharma Wins. On September 19, 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced the Elijah Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act. The bill, known as H.R. 3, was a shot across the bow of an ...
Mar 11, 2021 · Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna – for possibly the first time ever, the names of big pharma companies have become common parlance among the general public. In the past, if I mentioned the...
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In his unsparing criticism of the drug industry, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, Dr. Ben Goldacre writes about a drug called reboxetine as an example of one of the many problems with how drugs are developed. Reboxetine (known commercially as Edronax) is an antidepressant. Dr. Goldacre, a psychiatrist by training, r...
To those who oppose the pharmaceutical industry, the answer is to embrace nature. The idea is simple and alluring. It sketches a comforting picture of a benevolent Mother Nature seeding her earthly garden with the cures we will need: an herb for cramps, a tree for fevers, a spice for pain. The molecules produced by the natural world are perceived a...
In 2013, Dr. Goldacre and many others announced the AllTrials campaign, whose aim was to ensure all clinical trials would be registered publicly and all results reported. The campaign, whose petitionhas been signed by over 95,000 people, is not trying to end the pharmaceutical industry, but rather to flood its arena with transparency. Why? Because ...
Apr 28, 2022 · April 28, 2022 4:10 PM EDT. Dr. Abramson is author of the new book, Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It, and serves on the clinical faculty of Harvard...
As a result of that Pharma fragmentation, Big Pharma must compete for parts of the value chain with focused players—for Exhibit 2 of example, 3 generics companies that excel at manufacturing; life-science service providers that offer flexible, specialized services (such as managing clinical trials) at scale; and biotechnology companies that gene...
